Requesting a change to the createCourseInstanceMeeting function in the API:
Add an additional optional parameter for the default attendance type. Make the default value "Present" if the value is not used - retaining backward compatibility with how it is currently implemented. But if used, default the attendance to the used option - eg: Absent.
At the moment, I am using this function to create meeting events when uploading data from our attendance tracking system, and am having to loop through the student list setting their default attendance to "absent" before then processing their attendance record. It is more likely that someone will be marked absent, and later complain about being present, than the other way round, and so start with the default of 'absent.'
Adding this optional parameter and having Populi do the work behind the scenes would simplify our work flow one small step.
